Credit Information
If we have provided you with a financial product or service, we exchange your credit information with credit reporting bodies. We use the credit information that we exchange with the credit reporting body to assess your creditworthiness, assess your application for finance and manage your finances.
If you fail to meet your payment obligations in relation to any finance that we have provided or arranged or you have committed a serious credit in fringement then we may disclose this information to a credit reporting body.
You have the right to request access to the credit information that we hold about you and make a request for us to correct that credit information if needed. Please see the heading “How do you access and correct your personal information?” below.
Sometimes your credit information will be used by credit reporting bodies for the purposes of pre screening direct marketing on the request of other credit providers. You can contact the credit reporting body at any time to request that your credit information is not used in this way.
You may contact the credit reporting body to advise them that you believe that you may have been a victim of fraud. In Australia, you can ask a CRB not to use or disclose your credit-related personal information for a period of 21 days without your consent if you believe on reasonable grounds that you are, or are likely to be, a victim of fraud, including identity fraud.
The credit reporting body we use is Equifax. You can download a copy of their privacy policy at https://www.equifax.com.au/privacy.
How do we verify your identity electronically?
We may ask you for your consent to verify your identity electronically in order to comply with our obligations under the AML/CTF Act. When you provide us with your consent to verify your identity electronically, we will provide your personal information to Equifax, a credit reporting body, and request that they provide us with an assessment of whether the personal information matches (in whole or part) the personal information held by Equifax. Equifax may prepare and provide a verification assessment to us, and may use the personal information provided by us, and the personal information held by them (including personal information of other individuals) to preparethe verification assessment. To further comply withour obligations under the AML/CTF Act, we will share your details with First AML for personal/entity identity verification.
Your personal information will be handled in accordance with the Privacy Law. When making a verification request, your personal information is considered to be “credit information” under the PrivacyAct.
How do we keep your personal information accurate and up to date?
It is important that the information we hold is accurate and up to date. In this, we ask that you contact us whenever there are any changes to your personal details, so that we can update our records.
How do you access and correct your personal information?
The information we hold about you is yours to accessand correct, and as such we can provide you with general information, such as your name, address and contact details quite easily. More detailed information may take longer and involve a fee to cover the costs of retrieving and supplying the details you want. If you need to access your detailed information, write to us at the contact address below.
If any of the personal or credit information we hold about you is incorrect, inaccurate or out of dateyou may request that we correct the information. If appropriate we will correct the personal information at the time of the request, otherwise we will provide an initial response to you within seven days of receiving your request. Where reasonable, and after our investigation, we will provide you with details about whether we have corrected the personal or credit information within 30 days.
What will happen if you do not provide your personal information to us?
If we request personal information about you and you do not provide it, we may not be able to provide you with the financial product or service that you request.In addition, if we are required to comply with certain legislation to provide you with the products and services you choose, then collection of certain personal information will be mandatory.
How safe and secure is the information we hold about you?
We take great care with the information we hold about you. Our aim is to ensure that any details are securely protected from misuse, loss, unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. We will take reasonable care to make sure that we keep your information in an accurate, complete and up to date manner. When that information is no longer required to be held by law or needed, it will be permanently destroyed or de-identified.
How secure is your personal information online?
We maintain industry standard technology and procedures in respect to our information management and provision of online services, encryption techniques, virus protection and firewall settings. If you make a transaction involving the submission of personal information over the Internet to us using one of our online forms then we employ encryption technology to ensure the security of that personal information transmission. User identifiers, passwords or other access codes may also be used to control access to your personal information. Once we have received your personal information, it is stored and protected by a range of security controls, including firewalls, user identification requirements and audit trails.
What are 'cookies' and how do they work?
While browsing our websites, our server may automatically collect navigational data by placing“cookies” in your browser file on your hard drive. Cookies do not capture or track any personal information and cannot identify you as an individual. You may elect to not accept cookies on your browser. We may use third-parties to serve ads on our website. These companies may employ cookies and action tags (also known as single pixel gifs or web beacons) to measure advertising effectiveness. Any information that these third parties collect via cookies and action tags is recorded on an anonymous basis. Information regarding opting out of interest-based advertising is available at https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.
If you have a complaint
If you have a complaint about the handling, use ordisclosure of your personal information, write to the our Privacy Officer at the contact address below. We will investigate your complaint, and advise you of the outcome as soon as possible. If the matter is not resolved to your satisfaction and you are located in Australia, you can then refer your complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner,who can be contacted at Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, GPO Box 5218, SydneyNSW 2001, website: www.oaic.gov.au.
More information and contact address You can request further information about the way we manage the personal information that we hold, or make a complaint, by writing to:
Compliance Officer
Hejaz Group
PO BOX 96 Flinders Lane VIC 8009
or via email to aucompliance@hejazfs.com.au
Does our privacy policy change?
We review our policies, statements and procedures to keep up to date with changes in the law, technology and market practice. As a result we may update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time.